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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Papermaking |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Headquarters | Miamisburg, Ohio |
| Key people | Mark A. Angelson Chairman George F. Martin President & CEO James C. Tyrone EVP, Commercial Operations and Business Development Jay A. Epstein SVP CFO Daniel A. Clark SVP & CAO David L. Santez SVP, General Counsel and Secretary L. Mark Lukacs SVP, Operations |
| Products | Paper |
| Website | www.newpagecorp.com |
NewPage, is a leading producer of printing and specialty papers in North America with $3.1 billion in net sales for the year ended December 31, 2012. NewPage is headquartered in Miamisburg, Ohio, and owns paper mills in Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. These mills have a total annual production capacity of approximately 3.5 million tons of paper.
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Products [edit]
NewPage offers the broadest portfolio of commercial printing papers in North America, ranging from coated, digital, specialty and book, to supercalendered and uncoated. Whatever your printing process — sheetfed, digital, web offset or gravure — NewPage is here to meet your on-press needs.
Our product line consists of reputable brands including certified recycled products that are unsurpassed in quality, consistency and reliability. NewPage papers are perfect for end-use applications including:
- Catalogs, magazines, books
- Retail, inserts, direct mail, collateral
- Packaging, labels and specialty applications
Operations & Facilities [edit]
NewPage has facilities in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Kentucky, Maryland and Maine. Our paper mills and our research center are set in beautiful wooded areas with plenty of opportunities for recreation and cultural activities. Our headquarters, in Miamisburg, Ohio, is just a few minutes from Dayton, a cultural center of Southwest Ohio, and just north of the bustling urban Cincinnati, Ohio, area.
- Headquarters
Located in Miamisburg, Ohio, NewPage headquarters is in the heart of the Southwest Ohio metropolitan region. Dayton is just minutes to the north, and the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area is a short drive south. Cultural opportunities are endless, and the region also has an abundance of parks. For quality of life, the area around Miamisburg is one of best in the nation, with excellent schools, fine neighborhoods, and a wide variety of entertainment and recreation with easy reach.
NewPage Corporation's headquarters building in Miamisburg was the first structure in Ohio to receive a "Green Globes" certification for its sustainability, energy efficiency, low water consumption and employee environment.
- Research and Development
The Research and Development (R&D) facility of NewPage is located in Biron, Wisconsin, across the street from the NewPage Biron mill. Built in 1959 by Consolidated Papers, Inc., the building has undergone several expansions and equipment upgrades. R&D encompasses over 42,000 square feet on a beautiful 40-acre site where it explores new technologies and areas for innovation of NewPage product lines.
- Biron Mill
Begun in 1873 as a sawmill, the Biron Mill is located in Biron, Wisconsin and includes two paper machines with a capacity to produce approximately 400,000 tons per year of lightweight and medium-weight coated papers used primarily for magazines and catalogs. The mill has five boilers and four turbines that provide steam to the mill and 40% of the electricity to run the mill.
- Duluth Mill
The Duluth Mill is located in Duluth, Minnesota and began operations in 1987. Its single paper machine produces several grades of supercalendered paper used for catalogs, magazines, advertising inserts and other commercial printing. This mill is the top producer of supercalendered paper in the United States with annual capacity of approximately 250,000 tons. The Duluth Recycled Pulp Mill started as a greenfield operation in 1993, producing high-quality recycled pulp. Facility recycles nearly 1 million pounds of recovered paper each day.
- Escanaba Mill
The Escanaba Mill is located in Escanaba, Michigan and opened in the early 1900s. Today the facility has one kraft and one refiner mechanical pulp (RMP) mill, three paper machines and three off-machine coaters plus supporting equipment and one pulp dryer. The mill produces approximately 770,000 tons per year of paper and about 500,000 tons per year of hardwood, softwood and refiner mechanical pulp.
- Luke Mill
The Luke Mill is located in Luke, Maryland, having been established in 1888. Today it has one kraft pulp mill and two paper machines. At this location, the company can produce 520,000 tons per year of paper and approximately 411,000 tons per year of hardwood and softwood pulp.
- Rumford Mill
The Rumford Mill is located in Rumford, Maine and opened in 1901. Today it has one kraft and one groundwood pulp mill, three coated paper machines plus supporting equipment and one pulp dryer. Each year, the facility produces an average of 640,000 tons of paper and approximately 500,000 tons per year of hardwood, softwood and groundwood pulp.
- Stevens Point Mill
The Stevens Point Mill is located in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, having opened in 1919 with a focus on fruit wrap, tissue, toweling and crepe paper. It has evolved into the production of flexible packaging papers, technical papers and label papers. The facility’s two paper machines have the capacity to produce 170,000 tons per year of these specialty papers.
- Wickliffe Mill
The Wickliffe Mill is located in Wickliffe, Kentucky and opened in the late 1960s. It has a kraft pulp mill, one paper machine and one off-machine coater plus supporting equipment and two pulp dryers. The mill produces approximately 340,000 tons per year of paper and about 345,000 air-dried short tons of hardwood pulp per year.
- Wisconsin Rapids Mill
The Wisconsin Rapids Mill is located in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin and opened in 1904. It currently has the capacity to produce approximately 520,000 tons per year of medium- to heavy-weight woodfree coated papers. It has an integrated pulp mill with a capacity of approximately 500,000 tons and a converting facility capable of approximately 400,000 tons of production with a fully automated storage and retrieval system for parent sheet rolls as well as finished inventory.
Closed or Former Facilities [edit]
- Niagara Mill, located in Niagara, Wisconsin (Closed in 2008)
- Kimberly Mill, located in Kimberly, Wisconsin (Closed in 2009)
- Chillicothe Mill, located in Chillicothe, Ohio (Sold in 2006 to Glatfelter; still operational)
- Port Hawkesbury Mill, located in Point Tupper, Nova Scotia (Closed in 2011)
- Whiting Mill, located in Whiting, Wisconsin (Closed in 2011)
History [edit]
Two of the mills can trace their roots to the West Virginia Paper Company (aka the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company and later, Westvaco) that was established in 1888 by William Luke on 50 acres (202,000 m²) of land along the Potomac River in an area known as "West Piedmont" (now Luke, Maryland). The mill in Luke remains a major economic factor in the area and its impact straddles the river into Beryl and Piedmont in West Virginia.
In 2005, MeadWestvaco's Printing and Writing Paper business was sold to investment firm Cerberus Capital Management for about $2.3 billion to form NewPage Corporation. NewPage originally constituted 5 pulp and paper manufacturing in Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, and Ohio. In April 2006, NewPage sold their carbonless operations located in Ohio for $84 million to global specialty papermaker P. H. Glatfelter Company, based in York, Pennsylvania. In 2007, NewPage Corporation purchased the North American assets of Stora Enso (formerly Consolidated Papers) which included mills in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nova Scotia.
Ed Series [edit]
Ed™ is a continuing education series sponsored by NewPage. Over the years Ed has delivered technical advice on all things printing: coatings, inks, retouching, prepress, embossing and more. Ed is here to help you understand the amazing things you can do with paper.
Paper Knowledge® [edit]
The NewPage Paper Knowledge® Seminars are designed for customers such as graphic designers, publishers, printers, converters and merchants as well as for paper industry suppliers. The program is an intensive discussion, workshop and instructional session in which the complexities of printing paper…its chemistry, manufacture and performance are fully illustrated.
Here are some of the specific subjects covered:
- Papermaking and Coating
- Printing Processes
- Ink, Paper and Printing
- Runnability and Printability
- Light, color and the Printed Image
- Appearance Characteristics of Paper
- Mechanical Properties of Paper
- Paper Recycling
- Paper Math
- Types of Paper
- Alternatives to Wood
- Sustainability and the Environment
- Press OKs
Bankruptcy [edit]
- Chapter-11 Bankruptcy
On September 7, 2011, the NewPage Corporation filed for chapter 11 bankcruptcy reorganization due to negative cash flow for more than a year.[1]
- Chapter-11 Bankruptcy Emergence
NewPage Corporation announced December 21, 2012, that it has successfully completed its financial restructuring and has officially emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection pursuant to its Modified Fourth Amended Chapter 11 Plan which was confirmed on December 14, 2012, by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware in Wilmington. [2]
